{"id":67639,"date":"2020-07-07T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=67639"},"modified":"2020-07-06T18:26:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T13:26:46","slug":"ptdc-hotels-motels-leased-out-private-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ptdc-hotels-motels-leased-out-private-operators.html","title":{"rendered":"PTDC hotels, motels will be leased out to private operators: SAPM Bukhari"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) for Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Zulfi Bukhari on Sunday (July 5) said that the government has decided to give the Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation\u2019s (PTDC) hotels and motels on a 30-year lease to private operators, a news source reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier on July 3, the minister took to Twitter and revealed the government\u2019s strategy regarding the future of the PTDC. He said that the government is not shutting the PTDC down but \u2018making changes as a step towards structuring it, in accordance with the best global practices.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-tourism-dept-register-14000-travel-agencies-during-fy2020-21.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Punjab Tourism Dept to register 14,000 travel agencies during FY2020-21<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the SAPM, the move was important as due political appointments and mismanagement of resources over time has made the oraganisation stagnant and stumble in loss. He further said that with the new structuring process in the pipeline, the \u2018PTDC is finally on its way to become a more efficient organisation.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bukhari further negated the rumours that the government has terminated PTDC employees due to COVID-19 outbreak and said that the corporation\u2019s hotels and motels will be leased out to private tour operators. He added that the country will have 46 three and four-star hotels in the next couple of years. He also mentioned that the PTDC hotels and motels incurred a loss of PKR 350 million in the last five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ptdc-register-all-hotels-motels-promote-tourism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PTDC to register all hotels, motels to promote tourism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister also shared details on the \u2018Brand Pakistan\u2019 programme planned to be launched by the end of this year to promote tourism in Pakistan, under the devised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/tourism-promotion-policy-2020-30-formed-wtf-2021-to-bring-usd-6-bn-sapm-bukhari.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">policy<\/a> for the next 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) for Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Zulfi Bukhari on Sunday (July 5) said that the government has decided to give the Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation\u2019s (PTDC) hotels and motels on a 30-year lease to private operators, a news source reported. Earlier on July 3, the minister took to Twitter and revealed the government\u2019s strategy regarding the future of the PTDC. He said that the government is not shutting the PTDC down but \u2018making changes as a step towards structuring it, in accordance with the best global practices.\u2019 Read: Punjab Tourism Dept to register 14,000 travel agencies during FY2020-21 According to the SAPM, the move was important as due political appointments and mismanagement of resources over time has made the oraganisation stagnant and stumble in loss. He further said that with the new structuring process in the pipeline, the \u2018PTDC is finally on its way to become a more efficient organisation.\u2019 Bukhari further negated the rumours that the government has terminated PTDC employees due to COVID-19 outbreak and said that the corporation\u2019s hotels and motels will be leased out to private tour operators. He added that the country will have 46 three and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":62211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15167],"tags":[33899,5296,33901,33900,33904],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tourism","8":"tag-government-plans-regarding-ptdc","9":"tag-ptdc","10":"tag-ptdc-future","11":"tag-ptdc-hotels-and-motels","12":"tag-ptdc-hotels-and-motels-leased-out-private-operators","13":"cat-15167-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PTDC hotels, motels to be leased out to private operators - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"He said that the government is not shutting the PTDC down but \u2018making changes as a step towards structuring it, in accordance with the best global...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ptdc-hotels-motels-leased-out-private-operators.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PTDC hotels, motels to be leased out to private operators - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"He said that the government is not shutting the PTDC down but \u2018making changes as a step towards structuring it, in accordance with the best global...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ptdc-hotels-motels-leased-out-private-operators.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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